Testing F21 kernel update kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21

[Chris Murphy]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Meikel <meikel_b at web.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> in bugzilla I found a bug
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197842) that adresses an issue
> I have. In a comment from Fedora Update System I can see that
> "kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.".
>
> I would like to verify if that kernel fixes my issue. I did read the "How to
> test updates" (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_test_updates) but it's
> still not clear to me what steps are necessary to test the update.
>
> I do not see the kernel update with yum check-update command:
>
> LANG="" su -c 'yum check-update --enablerepo=updates-testing kernel'
> # Loaded plugins: langpacks
>
> No more output. I then tried
>
> LANG="" su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21'
> # Loaded plugins: langpacks
> # No Match for argument: kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21
> # No package kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21 available.
> # No packages marked for update

If you go to:
admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
and type in kernel, you'll see kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21 is in "testing"
which translates into

# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21'

If that doesn't work I usually clobber it with 'yum clean all' and then retry.

-- 
Chris Murphy